/ Our story

Built by people, for people.

Twenty-five years, one belief that never changed: it is about people helping people.

git log --since=2000

The commit history

Every year is a commit. The core never got rewritten, only extended.

c0re · 2000
The Joomla years begin

Founded in Battle Creek, Michigan. Co-CEO Steven becomes an original Joomla! co-founder. Code we help write goes on to power tens of millions of sites.

a1d9 · 2006
From shop to partner

We stop being a single-CMS shop. We start solving the whole problem: design, build, host, and support, on whatever platform fits.

7f22 · 2012
The Fortune 500 calls

KFC, Thieme, TIC Gums, and Marygrove College among the names. Main Street and enterprise, held to the same standard.

b83e · 2018
Our own data centers

In-house, PCI-compliant hosting comes online. 24/7/365 monitoring, run by people in Michigan, never an offshore queue.

e4d2 · 2023
AI, with human judgment

We build coreCerebrum, our own AI build tooling, and put a human in the loop on everything it touches.

HEAD · 2026
15,000 sites and counting

15,000+ sites developed, 1,000+ hosted, 800+ maintained, 25,000+ conversions a month. The belief is unchanged.

We build it. You own it.

Full source code, handed over, no strings attached. That is the whole contract. It is the clearest way we know to say we work for you, not the other way around.

// The team

Real people, in Michigan.

We answer the phone. We know your name. The person who builds your project is the person who supports it. Real faces, real desks, right here in Battle Creek.

Michael Pignataro, CEO at corePHP
Michael Pignataro
Chief Executive Officer
Steven Pignataro, CTO and Joomla co-founder at corePHP
Steven Pignataro
CTO · Joomla! Co-Founder
Ashley Blakemore, Director of Growth and Partnerships at corePHP
Ashley Blakemore
Director of Growth & Partnerships
Joshua Thomas, Director of Marketing at corePHP
Joshua Thomas
Director of Marketing & SEO
Drew Warren, AI Developer at corePHP
Drew Warren
AI Developer
James Bruce, Full-stack Developer at corePHP
James Bruce
Full-stack Developer
Andrea Martinez, Assistant Project Manager at corePHP
Andrea Martinez
Assistant Project Manager
Trent Dunn, Account Manager at corePHP
Trent Dunn
Account Manager

// Home base

Battle Creek, Michigan.

245 Michigan Ave West. This is where the work happens and where the phone rings. No offshore ticket queue, no handoff to a stranger. When we say people helping people, we mean the ones down the hall.

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